Unusual Leather: The Texture of Shark and Ostrich Skin

A piece of furniture or a wall section covered with rare leather: sharkskin with its fine granular protrusions and a natural light-colored ridge line; ostrich leather with regularly distributed circular quill bumps; or lizard skin with small, regular scales. Since the area of each hide is very small, large areas must be pieced together, and the seams are hand-aligned into a regular pattern, becoming a decorative element in themselves. The dyeing is low-chroma: smoky gray, deep blue, ivory. The surface is polished to a soft sheen. Close-up, side lighting to clearly show the uneven texture of the surface. Avoid: using embossed imitation leather, large areas without seams, using high-chroma dyeing, shooting from a distance where the texture is not visible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一件家具或一段牆面包覆罕見的皮革:鯊魚皮有顆粒狀的細密突起與一道天然的淺色脊線;鴕鳥皮有規則分布的圓形毛孔凸點;蜥蜴皮則是細小的規則鱗片。因為每張皮的面積都很小,大面積使用時必須拼接,拼縫以手工對齊成規律的圖案,反而成為裝飾。染色是低彩度的:煙灰、深藍、象牙。表面經過拋光呈現柔和的光澤。近景特寫,側光讓表面的凹凸質地清楚。避免:使用壓紋的仿製皮革、大面積無拼縫、使用高彩度的染色、拍成遠景看不出質地。